f
ancient Pavonia.--IRVING.

I made up my mind _to foot it_.--HAWTHORNE.

A sturdy lad ... who in turn tries all the professions, who
_teams it, farms it, peddles it_, keeps a school.--EMERSON.

(_b_) "Thy mistress leads thee a dog's life _of it_."--IRVING.

There was nothing _for it_ but to return.--SCOTT.

An editor has only to say "respectfully declined," and there is
an end _of it_.--HOLMES.

Poor Christian was hard put _to it_.--BUNYAN.

[Sidenote: _Reflexive use of the personal pronouns._]

93. The personal pronouns in the objective case are often used
_reflexively_; that is, referring to the same person as the subject of
the accompanying verb. For example, we use such expressions as, "I
found _me_ a good book," "He bought _him_ a horse," etc. This
reflexive use of the _dative_-objective is very common in spoken and
in literary English.

The personal pronouns are not often used reflexively, however, when
they are _direct_ objects. This occurs in poetry, but seldom in prose;
as,--

Now I lay _me_ down to sleep.--ANON.

I set _me_ down and sigh.--BURNS.

And millions in those solitudes, since first
The flight of years began, have laid _them_ down
In their last sleep.--BRYANT.

REFLEXIVE OR COMPOUND PERSONAL PRONOUNS.

[Sidenote: _Composed of the personal pronouns with_ -self, -selves.]

94. The REFLEXIVE PRONOUNS, or COMPOUND PERSONAL, as they are also
called, are formed from the personal pronouns by adding the word
_self_, and its plural _selves_.

They are _myself_, (_ourself_), _ourselves_, _yourself_, (_thyself_),
_yourselves_, _himself_, _herself_, _itself_, _themselves_.

Of the two forms in parentheses, the second is the old form of the
second person, used in poetry.

_Ourself_ is used to follow the word _we_ when this represents a
single person, especially in the speech of rulers; as,--

Methinks he seems no better than a girl;
As girls were once, as we _ourself_ have been.--TENNYSON.

[Sidenote: _Origin of these reflexives._]

95. The question might arise, Why are _himself_ and _themselves_ not
_hisself_ and _theirselves_, as in vulgar English, after the analogy
of _myself_, _ourselves_, etc.?

The history of these words shows they are made up of the
dative-objective forms, not the possessive forms, with _self_. In
Middle English the forms _meself_, _theself_, were changed into the
possess